1. Why did you choose the study abroad program that you did?
When I decided apply for a study abroad program I already knew that I wanted to study somewhere that would help me learn to speak and understand Spanish. I then had to choose between the Spain and Costa Rica programs.
Ultimately I chose to study abroad in Spain because I had always wanted to travel around Europe, and I thought it would be good opportunity to not only learn the language but visit many other countries as well.
I had spoken with USAC alumni about the various Spain programs and researched locations before choosing to study in the San Sebastián.
The combination of the beautiful location and the recommendations of other students helped me solidify my decisions to study there. It turned out to be more than I ever imagined.
If I get to study abroad again, which I would love to do, I would like to return to San Sebastián. I feel like I could have spent much more time there. However, there are many more locations that I would love to spent time in.
I would like to study in London at one point. Though I wouldn't be practicing a new language, I would like to get the big city experience. I would also be able to work more in my major, journalism, there.
There were so many highlights to my study abroad experience. In general I loved just living by the ocean and getting to experience the city of San Sebastián.
One of my favorite experiences was the night of the Tamborrada, a 24 hour festival celebrating the city. The entire city was out all day and night dancing and singing and playing drums in the streets. It was incredible to witness the lively culture of the people and share in the festivities.
Another highlight was spending two weeks on spring break with my host family. I learned more about the Spanish language in that short time than in all of my classes, and I had a lot of fun..
Another one of my absolute favorite experiences was the surfing class. I had so much fun and learned so much from the local sure instructors.
Studying abroad has given me greater confidence in a lot of areas of my life. First of all I learned so much about the Spanish language and got to practice with native speakers for five months straight.
I also feel accomplished in moving to a new city, living with strangers and making my way in a foreign county. I improved my interpersonal skills, my organizations skills and my traveling skills (yes, traveling definitely takes practice).
After studying abroad I feel more open to other cultures, new experiences and have a greater desire to learn more about the world. I have come home with a more open perspective of my life, the world and of other people.
Even though it wasn't always easy to adjust to a very different lifestyle I feel I have grown so much from my experience abroad. There are many benefits of studying abroad and having the most fun, exciting time of your life is just one of them.
I was able to experience not only Spanish culture, but I got a very close look into Basque culture as well. Our program took us on multiple excursions around the Basque Country and offered many classes and activities that allowed us to integrate and learn a lot about the people and their culture.
We got to see many important historical and geographical sites around the Basque Country as well. Some of the interesting places we got to visit were a traditional Basque farm house, a cider house and the important geological site in Zumaia.
6. What was a fun cultural experience?
I knew that adjusting to a new culture would be difficult, but I never expected to feel so clumsy and unsure so often. I had many funny experiences in Spain while ordering food, buying groceries, speaking with my host mom and just finding my way around.
One night I remember going to a little bar in the old part of town to eat dinner and start a night out. It was a bar that served mussels and other portions of Spanish dishes. I noticed that all over the floor were dirty napkins and even the shells form the mussels. People were just dropping them on the ground below the tables and bar stools.
My friend and I were appalled and thought what a rude bunch of people were in that bar until another friends explained that it was customary to drop the stuff on the floor, even respectable in many bars in the Basque Country.
It was a very foreign concept to us, but reluctantly we followed suit and let a crumpled napkin join the ranks of its fallen comrades on the floor. I couldn't do the shells though. That was just too much.
Studying abroad taught me a lot about myself. I learned that I am a lot more outgoing than I thought and that meeting new people and interacting with others is rewarding and fun.
I learned that being able to get along with all different kinds of people and to always try to understand others, no matter how foreign, is really important to me.
I believe that having an open mind to new cultures and ways of life is very important. Studying abroad has helped me feel more open to the world and more capable of exploring it.
During my studying abroad experience I learned that as important as it is to be active and hardworking that taking time to relax can be equally as important and rewarding.
Living in Spain, and witnessing a culture very different from the American one, has taught me that it is important to take time out to spend time with other people and especially family.
I've learned that I don't always have to be in a hurry and that I can actually accomplish more and enjoy life more if I take time to relax.
If I could do one thing differently in my study abroad experience I would have stay up later, gone out more, spent more time with local people, studied verb conjugations more often and gone on more excursions and hikes.
The only problem was that I didn't have enough time to accomplish all of the plans I had. I would have loved to stay for a whole year if I could have, I would have changed that.
Now that I am home I tend to think about things differently. I feel more open to new experiences and want to explore the people and things in my own city that I have taken for granted before.
I also try to be more understanding and patient with other people. I feel more confident and capable of traveling, interacting with new people and taking care of myself.
I will graduate in four years. Studying abroad has actually made it possible for me to get a second major in Spanish and still graduate in four years.
I am currently enjoying my summer vacations and getting ready to finish my final two semesters at UNR. I have a job as a nanny and am going to take summer school courses.
I want to find a group with whom I can continue practice my Spanish and volunteer at a local elementary school with primarily Spanish speaking students.
I don't remember hearing many myths about studying abroad before my trip, but maybe there were some expectations that went along with the idea. I had heard that classes abroad are typically less difficult and that teachers are more lenient.
I am sure that this depends on the program, but from what I had heard from other students it seemed that it was true. However, in my experience abroad my classes were actually fairly difficult and the Spanish teachers were actually very strict graders.
Though our teachers said we were doing a great job and improving a lot of us were getting the grades we were use to receiving.
I had not expected all of my classes to be as difficult as they were, and I felt I had to work extra hard to get the grades I wanted while balancing all of the extracurricular activities and fun stuff that is a part of the experience as well.
I would tell the hesitant student that they should definitely take the leap of faith and apply for a studying abroad program.
I would tell them honestly that it would be one of the best decisions they ever make and one of the most rewarding experiences of their life.
I wouldn't tell them that that they are going to feel perfectly comfortable throughout the entire experience nor that they wouldn't ever wish to be home with their stuff and their people because they might honestly feel out of place and homesick at times.
However, I could confidently tell them that despite all of the ups and downs of the journey, I know that studying abroad would be an opportunity for growth in ways they can't imagine if not the most fun experience of their entire lives.
I would tell the hesitant student that they would regret missing out on the opportunities USAC has to offer.
-Virginia Allen, University of Nevada, Reno, studied in San Sebastián, Spain.


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Adventures in a Binary World
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With lovely characters and fun stories, your family will fall in love with technology. Explore together the hidden mysteries behind every screen around the house.
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Hi! I'm Miriam.
Mom, Coding Teacher and Programmer. And for the past 2 years I've spent the naps of my baby writing and drawing stories for young kids about technology and computers.
Some weeks ago I was at the EuRuKo Conference and they just shipped the talk recordings! Check out Zerus & Ona's presentation in the video below.
Well, hello Parent-Human.
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It's The Binary World.
We now live in a world where it's way more likely that kids become familiar with computers than to meet a cow in real life! Still, if you browse through children's books, you'll find many farms and very few computers.
Imagine. What could happen if you tell your kids stories about binary code while learning to count? Or if they hear about RGB codes while learning about colors? We don't need to raise programmers and tech wizards all over the place. But we do need to give children a broader understanding of the world around them from an early age. These "extra tools" will help them to build the world they want to live in, in whatever way they choose.
But… what if my child is not into computer science?
Well… guess what? I wasn't either! Growing up, my dad wanted me to go into computer science. But I had to find my own way. I went to college and studied architecture. After a while, I quit my job as an architect and taught myself how to code.
It took me 30 years to find the creative, colorful, human side of computers.
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Braving the elements
Congratulations for a memorable victory on the longest and probably hottest day of the summer. Under extreme conditions, Jan Frodeno once again provided an impressive success at the Ironman European Championship in Frankfurt. Jan was able to win the Ironman European Championship in the Main metropolis for the third time after 2015 and 2018. In a dramatic race, he conquered the heat of Frankfurt in 7:56:02, hours ahead of Sebastian Kienle and Franz Löschke in first place. With this, the two-time Ironman World Champion highlighted his ambitions for another World Championship triumph in Hawaii in October.
At 6:25 a.m., the athletes started the Ironman European Championship with the 3.8 kilometer swim. Right from the start, Jan started the race from the front in the 25-degree water and was able to easily pull away from the competition. After 47 minutes, he came out of the water first and set off for the 180-kilometer bike course in the lead. His strongest rival on this day, Sebastian Kienle, followed him with a face distorted by pain. The reason was a shard of broken glass had lodged in his heel in transition zone 1. For Jan, too, a tricky scene on the bike caused a moment of shock. Due to a braking error triggered by an irritation caused by the lead bike, last year's defending champion ended up off the course for a short time and lost his nutrition. "The lead bike was suddenly in front of me on the racing line, which caused me to brake and skid slightly at the back. I had a lot of luck there." He was visibly relieved after the end of the race. After Kienle was able to catch up with him despite his injury, they both entered transition zone 2 at the same time, where Kienle first had to have the shard removed. After Jan, with great sportsmanship in mind, had inquired about his opponent, it was time for him to start the 42.195 kilometers of the marathon. Although Kienle was able to catch up, Jan finally pulled away and crossed the finish line first in the heat battle of Frankfurt.
An overwhelmed winner
The exertions of the extreme race were clear to Jan at the finish line. Nevertheless, he was overjoyed about the successful dress rehearsal for Hawaii: "So much happened today, so much drama. I think that was one of my best races today, even if it is one of the toughest right now. That's racing." With this performance in extreme conditions, Jan demonstrated his strength and showed that he will be a force to be reckoned with in Kona. However, he himself exercised restraint with regard to Hawaii: "To be honest, I still felt pretty frail in the heat. There's still room to go before Kona." Before the showdown at the prestigious Ironman in Hawaii on October 12, he will compete at Ironman 70.3 Gdynia. But first of all he has to regenerate - to be able to tackle the next big tasks with a cool head.
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Amazon rainforest fires: Why is one of the planet's most humid areas burning?
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Raging fires are burning through the Amazon; as it has never done before. The "lungs of the Earth" are suffocating with the spread of thick smoke from the fires that are devastating the Amazon in spite of being one of the most humid areas in the world. So why is it burning?
Geographical and climatic conditions of the Amazon
The Amazon rainforest is formed around the Amazon River and its river basin. It is the largest tropical rainforest in the world with 7,000,000 km2 (2,700,000 sq mil), distributed in nine different countries. The largest portion of the forest is in Brazil and Peru, followed by Bolivia, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Guyana, French Guiana and Suriname.
The Amazon Jungle has a tropical climate, usually found within 10 to 15 degrees latitude of the equator, characterized by high temperatures and humidity throughout the year, abundant and regular rainfall of at least 60 mm (2.4 inches) every month of the year. The humidity is normally so high that in certain areas, the forest is able to create its own rainy season with water vapour transpiring from the trees' leaves. This phenomenon not only favours the development of abundant vegetation and a rich biodiversity that is unique in the world, but also acts as a great carbon sink where CO2 and O2 inputs and outputs are balanced. No wonder it is known as the "lungs of the Earth".
The importance of water in Amazonia
The intense and constant precipitations which are characteristic of a tropical climate fill the rivers of this area, especially the Amazon River, the longest in the world, and also the one with the highest flow rate.
The tangled network of rivers that form the Amazon basin, on which the entire rainforest is sustained, marks the rhythm of life of plants, animals and of the human societies that inhabit the Amazon. The indigenous people living here have a "Culture of Water", in which this precious resource is not only key for their diet, it is also a means of transport and underpins their leisure.
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Why is the Amazon rainforest burning?
Wildfires can occur for many different reasons: some are naturally-caused, others are accidental, controlled, but one of the most threatening is the slash and burn, a method of clearing the land for cultivation, which can rage out of control. But what is the reason behind the fires in the Amazon specifically?
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To begin with, unlike the fires we have in Europe during the summer, forest fires in the Amazon are somewhat particular. Here fires are rare during most of the year because the humidity prevents them from starting and spreading. As Jos Barlow, Professor of Conservation Sciences at Lancaster University, explained to the BBC: "There is little evidence of natural forest fires in the Amazon because that would require dry lightning, that is, without rain." This can happen in certain parts of the world, but not in the Amazon. So what is the cause? If the possibility of a natural fire in the Amazon is little or nil, it leads us to think that there must have been a degree of intentionality.
And behind this intentionality, the increasing deforestation in the Amazon plays a fundamental role. Many have also linked the devastation of the fires with climate change - and while this may be a factor during the dry season - it is not the main cause. According to a technical memorandum published by the Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM), 32,728 incidents of fire outbreaks were identified between January 1 and August 14 of 2019. One factor that could explain this high number of fires would be an intense drought in 2016. However, despite being the dry season, humidity levels in the Amazon are currently above average compared to the previous three years.
So if the dry season does not explain the current fires, the only plausible explanation is that deforestation is fanning the flames. Fire is commonly used to clear the land after cutting down forests; in addition to obtaining wood, many Amazon trees are cut down to plant soybeans, open space for lucrative cattle pastures, or other purposes. "There are no natural fires in the Amazon. However, there are people who light fires, which can worsen and turn into forest fires during the dry season," IPAM scientific director Ane Alenca explained in a statement.
The risk of this practice in the Amazon lies not only in the evident loss of woodland and the consequent loss of biodiversity, but also in the fact that the rainforest could enter a cyclical system in which this loss would make the region drier and drier, and where much of the rain generated by the Amazon rainforest itself would decrease due to the decline in the forest mass itself. This would increase the dryness of the soil, the possibility of greater deforestation activity and could increase the spread of fires.
And although there is still no official report of the burned areas of the Amazon rainforest, it is estimated that the fire has already consumed thousands of hectares that housed invaluable biodiversity. #PrayforAmazon
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TechnicBRICKs: B-model for new 8043 Excavator, revealed!
There are new photos revealing the B-model from the new Excavator (8043) to release this summer.
Because of the two remotes included with this set, it looks to have functions capable of simultaneous control. Not needing to be exchanging remote channel to switch across functions, should be an excellent play experience.
Can't wait to play it around.
Thanks Anio for the heads-up about these news.
Since many of the 2H2010 Lego sets have already been released in OTHER THEMES (but not TECHNIC), I'm wondering when this 8043 set is going to be for sale. I'm going to order two sets to be able to keep the "A" and "B" models intact!
It is to be released in August.
That. Is. My. Dream. Set!
Wow, getting this for sure!
Mid Aug or mid Sept. That's what I found out in different online stores here in Germany.
Will get this set for sure.
I just wish this set would include two (hard to find in other sets) XL-motors for driving.
BTW lowest price I found so far is 140 € shipped.
I don't wanna sound like "I told you so" or anything, but this really is what I saw coming. Given the part selection, a loader seemed like the most logical thing to do. Also, I'm glad they're doing a full B-model, as opposed to the quick build they had for the Bulldozer in 2007.
Not necessarily an 11L axle, but very likely.
On the rear side there are also two red parts like rear lights (most likely dummy ones). They look new to me.
I think it's a trans red grile.
It should be the red grile attached to a 1x2 brick with two Technic holes.
I don't think it is an 11 axle.
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The Incredible Stats That Put Tipperary's Munster Triumph Into Context
By Gary Connaughton Nov 22, 2020 3:39 PM
Tipperary have made history this afternoon, winning their first Munster title in 85 years as they pulled off a shock against Cork.
It was a well-deserved victory for Tipp, coming at a poignant moment. Wearing special commemorative jerseys to make the 100th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, nobody can begrudge them this win.
It's difficult to put into context how much this means for Gaelic football in the county, but some of the stats below may give you an idea.
This is Tipperary's first provincial title since 1935
This was Tipperary's tenth Munster title, but they have had a hell of a wait.
Their last one came in 1935, losing seven finals in the intervening years. It wasn't exactly a bad year to end their drought, marking the 100th anniversary of Bloody Sunday in the perfect manner.
It's the first non-Cork/Kerry Munster title in 28 years
It's fair to say that that Cork and Kerry have been the kingpins in Munster. They have won 118 provincial crowns between them, with the other four counties managing a total of 13 before this year.
The last time someone other than the big two came out victorious was in 1992, when Clare pulled off a huge shock against Kerry.
It's only the second non-Cork/Kerry Munster title since 1935
Before that upset in 1992, the last time somebody apart from Cork or Kerry won the Munster title was in 1935, Tipperary's last victory.
Cork have now lost their last seven Munster final appearances in-a-row
It was assumed that Cork would finally end their drought in Munster after their shock win over Kerry in the semi-final, but their miserable record in provincial finals now continues.
They have lost their last seven Munster final appearances, including the deciders in each of the last four years.
25 counties have won football provincial titles since Tipperary's last
Since Tipperary's last Munster win in 1935, 25 different counties have won provincial football titles.
Only London, New York, Limerick, Waterford, Wicklow, Kilkenny, and Fermanagh have failed to win a provincial crown in the last 85 years.
This was the longest ever gap between provincial football title victories
85 years is a long wait. In fact, it is the biggest ever gap between football provincial titles.
The previous record was held by Clare, who went on a drought of 75 years from 1917-1992 between Munster titles.
Down went 92 years from 1902-2000 without an Ulster hurling championship, but that tournament was not held for much of the 20th century.
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School's future hangs in balance
EDUCATION chiefs have failed to reach a decision on a school's future.
Cheshire County Council's schools select panel met on Monday to discuss whether to recommend the closure of Gorsthills Primary.
But during the meeting members felt there was insufficient evidence provided by Transforming Learning Communities (TLC) officers to support plans to axe the Great Sutton school.
As a result the matter has been deferred to the full county council meeting on Thursday, July 13.
Members will be asked to make a recommendation to the executive council which meets a fortnight later to have the final say on the school's future.
Leading Gorsthills' campaigner Ian Finlay admits that although parents were hoping a recommendation would be made opposing plans to close the school, the out-come is still a step in the right direction.
He also said that the council had requested more time to investigate why TLC's forecasted school admission figures differed so greatly to the statistics he provided during the formal consultation.
Mr Finlay, a governor at Gorsthills said: 'This is still a very positive step forward for us all at Gorsthills. TLC could not provide enough evidence for the select panel to make a decision.
'The only way TLC can win is if they try to prolong our agony and torture so that our parents are forced into committing to other schools due to time restraints, therefore allowing the council to close us by default.
'My plea to all county councillors now is to have the courage and conviction to stand up and be counted with regard to Gorsthills.'
A county council spokesperson said: 'No recommendation was made by the panel and the matter will now go before full council next month before the final decision is made by the executive council on July 27.'


First of all, apologies for the radio silence, I went on holiday to sunny Menorca for a couple of weeks and have only recently returned. Don't worry, this won't turn into a holiday blog, although I have currently lost my big plan of what I was going to write about over the next few months so this is an emergency blog post.
And when I say "big plan", what I mean is the scrap of paper that had loads of ideas scribbled in biro. So this one is off the cuff (even more so than usual), and it concerns one of my all-time favourite actors: Christopher Walken.
I can't remember the first time Walken came into my world, but what I do know is that I can't recall a time when I wasn't aware of him. I would have been far too young to watch any of his films as a child, even in the days before age classification came into force (or, the gold old days as they are commonly referred to). I can tell you this though, once you've looked into that man's eyes, and heard his voice, you're hooked.
He has a stare very few actors can match, it's like looking into two glaciers that have been detached from the mainland as the first touches of global warming set them free. Sure, De Niro does a great tough guy stare, but Walked has a strange mirth behind it. As if he knows a joke that he's not going to share with you, but knows you would find really funny.
Annie Hall! I just remembered, the first movie I saw Walken in was Annie Hall. He played the younger brother of Diane Keaton and did the most fantastic detached estrangement: "Sometimes, when I'm driving alone at night, I see the headlights coming down the road and wonder what it would be like just to drive into them", or words to that effect.
And the voice. God, I wish I could impersonate Walken. I would genuinely die a happy man. If it was a toss up between walking my daughter down the aisle or getting a spot on Walken, well, I can't say that I'd side with my fatherly duties. But this holiday (it's not a holiday blog, I promise) I got so close, and even managed to get my kids to try. We visited a town called Mao, where my son almost stepped on a dead mouse, which then saw us all stretching the word "Mao" to "mouse" and it's the closest I've ever got to going full-Walken. You're trying it now aren't you? I cannot describe the joy I had listening to my kids impersonating Walken.
Still looks harder than you.
Yes, he's done a couple of cameos that everyone loves (Pulp Fiction and True Romance) but there's a stand-out performance that seems to have gone under the radar and I feel it my duty to bring it to everyone's attention. Many years ago my friend Jim and I went to the cinema to watch the family film Mouse-Hunt. It's a pretty good movie in an old-fashioned slapstick kind of way. We were the only people there who didn't have kids (we were students, so we naturally went to the midday showing) and for some time it would be fair to say that people wondered what we were doing there. That is until the mouse hunter turned up. Imagine that Walken's character from The Deer Hunter stayed alive (sorry for the spoiler) and took up a profession hunting mice. That's what you end up with. I'll be honest, I think the genius of this cameo was lost on the majority of the audience, save for Jim and myself. If you haven't seen it, make sure you do. If you've got kids it's one of the few Walken movies you can watch with them, and you will find yourself trying to say "you've gotta get inside. The mind. of the. Mao-use".
Hopefully by next week I'll find my list of actual blog content. In the meantime I'd love to know what your favourite Walken movies are.


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Declining Student Resilience: A Serious Problem for Colleges
Gracesgran Tue 29-Sep-15 09:08:51
With family teaching in both FE and HE I didn't find this surprising but it is always a bit of a shock to see it in print.
Surely it is a parents job to prepare a child for adulthood. Why are we tipping these students out of the nest without the wherewithal to cope?
TerriBull Tue 29-Sep-15 09:30:09
Yes I agree, I gave my son a crash course in cooking before he started uni, he graduated 3 years ago and now really enjoys cooking and has extended his repertoire way beyond spag bol, chilli and a basic cheese sauce. In his final year he shared a mixed house with 6 others, one boy had no concept of clearing up after himself after cooking, another couldn't boil water. The kitchen could be a battle ground at times, those who washed up, albeit infrequently, against those who wouldn't and kept most of the dirty dishes and cutlery in their bedrooms
Another thing that struck me as how little recycling some at uni do, in spite of mouthing off in their support for green issues, there seemed to be precious little sorting going on into recycling bins as far as I could see, bottles, cans, takeaway cartons just left outside for the bin collection. We were only there at the end of term pick ups, but I felt sorry for the next door neighbours. My own son had half the Amazon jungle in pizza boxes stowed under his bed so I can't claim to cover myself in glory.
Another thing many of them fail to get to grips with is managing a budget, I've lost count of the times I've heard about various people's kids getting their loan living allowance through and then blowing it in the first few weeks of term.
I agree that we need to prepare them for the practical side of life but this article seems to say that they are not prepared for emotional challenges or any form of failure which they seem to be exaggerating anyway.
Having read the article I think it's symptomatic of behaviour today, crying and hugging it's everywhere and it takes very little to trigger it. I often wonder how our parents' generation would have got through the war if they were as wet as some appear to be today. My son told me when he was in his first year he spent a couple of hours comforting a fellow student in his hall of residence who was in tears through homesickness, he presumed she came from the other end of the country and when he asked her where her home town was, he was gobsmacked to find it was a mere 5 miles away!
rosequartz Tue 29-Sep-15 09:53:50
I remember reading an article a couple or so years ago (can't remember where or when and I only have a hazy recollection of its content), however I think it was along the lines of over-praising children. By always praising them effusively for everything they do and not pointing out occasionally where they may have failed or could do better, parents were not preparing them for real life.
Coupled with school sports which were becoming less competitive, exam grades where A* had to be introduced (A was a great achievement when I was at school) we were in danger of setting them up for an inability to cope when they became young adults out in the world.
Of course, praise where praise is due is a good adage, but if given as a constant diet a child could be bewildered when reality hits them head on.
I hope mine went off able to cook, cope and manage money. However hard you try, though, some will always be better at managing their finances than others!
Luckygirl Tue 29-Sep-15 09:57:22
Universities are in a difficult situation - they have to avoid self-harm and suicide, but they also have to provide a proper education.
I do think that our school system with its emphasis on SATs and levels does not help students. They are put under such pressure even from a very early age. But there is a paradox here - they are expected to attain these levels (even if they have SEN), but teachers are also supposed to teach positively and non-competitively.
Children do need to learn how to deal with failure of various sorts, but they also need the freedom to be children. They only get one crack at it and we should not strip them of this precious time with too much in the way of SATs etc.
My personal view is that children do not do enough for themselves and have few duties or responsibilities at home any more. Washing up, feeding a pet, laying the table etc. - there is a tendency to feel they have to be entertained all the time, which leaves them unprepared for real life.
I know that some schools are taking on the task of teaching children mindfulness or relaxation to give them the tools to face stressful times, but in some places this has not gone down well with the fundamentalist christian parents who see it as coming from another religious culture - don't get me started on that one!
Indinana Tue 29-Sep-15 09:58:52
It's the result of years of never letting children fail at anything, of heaping praise on their every effort, however meagre.
I remember being appalled when my own children's junior school, over 30 years ago, had a new head teacher who completely changed the face of the annual school sports day. Everyone was a winner. The children ran in races but the child who came first received no accolade, because the head had decreed that those who didn't come first must not be made to feel a failure. So many children these days expect success, almost as a right, and have no idea how to deal with failure.
Combine this with the overly protective style of parenting that seems to have taken hold in recent years and it's little wonder that 18 year olds are unable to deal with everyday situations and stresses that they've always been shielded from.
J52 Tue 29-Sep-15 10:21:12
Long ago, the uni., all femail hall of residence (!) I was in, did not let anyone home for the first term!!
I don't know how they imposed this, but itmeant that everyone had to tough out any homesickness.
Several years ago our elder DS came home from uni for a week end, in the first term, and said he was not going back. His personal tutor just said, it was up to him.
We said fine, but on Monday he had to get a job and pay us back all the fees and up front money we had spent.
He was on the Sunday 4 pm train and never looked back!
Tough love works, sometimes.
Anya Tue 29-Sep-15 10:38:25
Too many little princes and princess being reared these days IMO. My own children had paper rounds, Saturday jobs, and worked on local farms during Uni days if they needed extra money.
DD did a year as an au pair in France between 'A' Levels and University.
It certainly taught them to look after themselves, toughen up and the value of money.
I love my oldest GS but he is a wimp and I dread to think how he'll cope with life.
Teetime Tue 29-Sep-15 10:44:03
I think the issue is really about emotional resilience. I had the same issue with student and newly qualified nurses. We found what they really needed to help them build up some inner reserves was solid mentoring and leadership at all levels. Easy to say not easy to do and very labour intensive.
M0nica Tue 29-Sep-15 12:29:52
I went to Uni in the 60s and there were plenty of problems then, but those with problems were braced rather than comforted. My BF caught the bus, to travel 30 miles home at least once a week because she was home sick. When she got home her father turned her right round and put her on the next bus back. She settled and really enjoyed her university years and says her father did exactly the right thing.
I think the number of mothers devastated by empty nest syndrome indicates, perhaps, parents who have run their lives round their children and built up a co-dependence that neither of them quite realise. I missed my two when they left. The house was quieter, only two for meals, less cleaning, less tidying up and washing. I was delighted when they came home, but I never felt the devastation that so many mothers, in particular claim they feel when the children leave home. I always had my own independent activities, a career I enjoyed and shared interests with DH so the children leaving home did not devastate me - and they both settled into uni quickly without home sickness.
annodomini Tue 29-Sep-15 13:11:09
My DGD1, who graduated two years ago, has worked since the age of 13 when she took up a paper round and eventually on the counter of the paper shop, continuing through her uni career, also working in a takeaway. During the holidays she did house maintenance for her landlord, cleaning up after filthy tenants (students) and decorating. Unable to get a job that suited her qualification, she has done bar work and cleaning until recently when (hallelujah!) she has found the job she was looking for. She is far more resilient than I was almost 60 years ago when, after a sheltered life, I entered university as - I must admit - rather an over-privileged student and young for my age! Not that I was homesick. St Andrews was very familiar to me and I'd always intended to go there.
ninathenana Tue 29-Sep-15 13:46:43
Did anyone notice the line in this article that stated on male student "didn't even know how to tie his shoe laces"
The image of an 18 yr olds mummy tying his laces is quiet frightening.
Get some velcro shoes!
PRINTMISS Tue 29-Sep-15 14:59:00
I rather feel that today's children are rather over-protected, although that was true of me also, but for an entirely different matter. There is a life out there, and children/young adults should really be encouraged to face it. Our two grand-children have been over-indulged in many ways, but our grand-son has made a good life at uni, and manages everything on his own, has done from the start. Our grand-daughter rather more over-indulged by a lovely dad, would have found life at uni almost impossible, but has a job and pays her way in every respect. (Unfortunately, since her dad has found a job which he now has to go out to do, she finds coming home to an empty house rather unpleasant - that's life - and the cat's just died, double tragedy).
PRINTMISS your comment made me laugh "coming home to an empty house, rather unpleasant - that's life and the cat's just died, double tragedy" but sad too if you love cats
janeainsworth Tue 29-Sep-15 15:23:10
I have to admit monica that I used up an entire box of Kleenex on the way home after we dropped DS off in Malvern where he was to spend a year before going to university. It was too far to come home for a weekend and I knew in my heart he would never live at home again, so for me it was a wrench.
He didn't know that though!
And I was working full time and just got in with it, but I missed him terribly.
Slightly off topic.
When DD moved from being 15 mins down the road to Edinburgh. My friend asked how I was coping, and regularly asked how she was doing and what she was up too. When one day I told her I hadn't spoken to her for 10 days, and didn't know what she was up too. Her reaction was "Oh, I couldn't go 10 days without speaking to 'C' " our DD's are both 27. I know this is true as they text each other once or twice a day when either of them is on holiday. I'm happy that I raised an independent self sufficient person.
Iam64 Tue 29-Sep-15 20:03:40
I'm probably off on a Pollyanna jolly, again, but the young folks in my family and friendship circle just aren't as described here. Well, the are so far as hugging and weeping as terribull describes, they seem to express and manage their emotions pretty well, most of the time. They also seem to support each other through go thick n thin, and challenge each other's excesses where necessary. All generations seem to find a way to muddle through life's challenges and many older people love to criticis the youth of today. ??
Yes I agree Iam64.
My DD2 in particular is expert at operating on a 'need to know' basis, not telling us anything, and sorting her problems out for herself.
Though I suppose it's 12 years since she left university and maybe things have changed since then.
BlackeyedSusan Tue 29-Sep-15 23:11:38
perhaps the one who could not tie shoe laces is dyspraxic. (but yes to velcro shoes or slip ons.. )
I hope that they will both eventually be independent... anyway, I certainly will have developed resilience trying to develop it in them..
Anya Wed 30-Sep-15 07:26:55
But it isn't our children's generation they are talking about - unless you're a very young granny is it? It's those currently going to university - the generation after.
But (and please don't take this the wring way BESusan) but there are too many excuses made these days such as 'dyspraxia' without these conditions being professionally diagnosed.
A good example of this is one of DD's friends whose eldest son has 'autism' - her diagnosis. She refuses to have a referral or official diagnosis. But every incidence of bad behaviour is put down to this condition. Now, her second son, at age 6 is developing this condition too, according to her!
Gracesgran Wed 30-Sep-15 09:14:35
I have never come across this Anya. Each time we asked for help for my daughter, who is dyslexic, she needed to have a recent report to access it. In fact, age 43, she is about to do a part-time masters (while teaching for three days a week and helping to run their business) and has had to have an up to date report. The scores on all her tests were exactly the same as they were when she was 9 as far as I can see although her coping skills have grown immensely. This will now give her access to help such as reading software (she reads at about half the speed of an average adult), etc.
There was something about this on the radio this morning and the women being interviewed was saying that many of these young people are coming into university with tremendous pressures to succeed because of the debt they will have. I am not sure that this is a cause but it may add to how they deal with things.
janeainsworth Thu 01-Oct-15 08:15:27
I heard that too Gracesgran.
I think another factor which was mentioned was the system in which funding follows the students so that if students drop out the college loses money. Perhaps this makes them more likely to provide counselling and pastoral care in an attempt to retain students who might simply have made a bad choice of course and might have been better off dropping out and starting afresh.


The Mid Atlantic 12/24 is coming up in August. It will be hot and humid. I do not do well in the high heat and humidity. In the last 2 years I have stopped after 100 miles due to the heat and humidity. I hope to do better this year and am considering trying arm coolers to help me deal with the heat and humidity.
I almost always have arm warmers or arm coolers on. Some mfr's make the coolers in pretty colors ... which defeats the purpose.
DeSoto makes good arm coolers, though the material is quite fragile. But worth it. Other bike clothiers make good coolers with stronger material ... though I don't sense a problem with heat dissipation among them all.
Without the coolers I simply get hot, sunburned and pre-cancerous.
Heat management is a key consideration on anything of distance. I wear a `shroud' over my head. Consider getting something from Coolibar and cut and paste it to accommodate your need. The shroud covers the exposed sections past the helmet and wraps over my cheeks, exposing only my mouth, nose and eyes.
Coolibar also makes gloves (black and white) that have very, very lightly applied sticky pads on them. I wear white in summer and dark/black in rest of year.
For cooling: they work well in dry air as they allow you to keep sweat, or water, on your skin to be evaporated. If your arms are already wet all the time without them they do not work so well.
For sunscreen: some of them are better than others, but the heavier ones work well. No need for sunscreen underneath.
For fairing: maybe, if your arms have a high Chewbacca number.
Jim ... as a default I agree with you re: no sunscreen underneath. As a default. But a) the mfr recommends it, b) I notice that I get skin discoloration (sunburn) when I only wear the arm cooler without the sunscreen.
I started buying only long sleeve jerseys a couple seasons ago. There are times when I like to be able to pull up the sleeves so I go for the fuller cut. Carried sun protectors for arms for years. Just wet them down for cooling. Couldn't see the need for specific hot weather gear.


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Democrats Just Blew Up A Top Trump Argument For Keeping His Taxes Secret
by globalpro | Jul 29, 2019 | Finance | 0 comments
One of the Trump administration's main justifications for disobeying a federal tax disclosure law is that Democrats' request for President Donald Trump's tax information is "unprecedented."
Turns out that's not quite right.
Democrats in the House of Representatives released historical documents Thursday showing that there actually is a precedent.
In the early 1970s, the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) used the same tax disclosure law to obtain tax information related to then-President Richard Nixon.
Amid a controversy over questionable deductions he'd used to lower his tax bill, in 1973 Nixon publicly asked the joint committee ― which is a nonpartisan panel of tax policy experts ― to pore over four years of his returns to verify that he'd paid what he owed.
The fact that Nixon invited Congress to look through his taxes while Trump has insisted on secrecy for his own is a big difference. But the new documents show that congressional investigators weren't satisfied with what Nixon had volunteered.
The House Ways and Means Committee on Thursday revealed old letters between the JCT and the Internal Revenue Service showing that the JCT had asked for more information on Nixon, including returns for years prior to the ones Nixon volunteered.
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House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal (D-Mass.) is joined at right by Rep. Tom Reed (R-N.Y.) at a hearing May 9. Neal issued subpoenas for six years of President Donald Trump's tax returns.
"The IRS provided those returns the same day," committee chair Richard Neal (D-Mass.) said in a statement.
"These included tax years prior to those released by President Nixon, as well as the returns of family members," Neal continued. "It is noted in the materials that these returns were necessary because they were related to later tax years. This is precisely why we requested returns prior to 2017 for President Trump."
Ways and Means, the JCT and the Senate Finance Committee are the three congressional committees that are supposed to be able to look at any tax return they want. Congress gave itself the power in 1924 as a check on the executive branch ― all the committees have to do is ask the IRS.
Earlier this year, Neal asked for copies of six years' worth of Trump's personal and business returns, plus documents related to any audits for those years. But Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, who oversees the IRS, said that complying with the "unprecedented" request could have terrible consequences.
"History demonstrates that private tax return information is susceptible to abuse for partisan purposes ― regardless of which party is in power," Mnuchin said in an April 23 letter. "Unless carefully restrained by law, this risk threatens the privacy of all taxpayers."
What consequences flowed from the Joint Committee on Taxation's investigation into Nixon's tax returns? One is that the IRS automatically audits the president every year. Neal said in his request that Democrats need to make sure the mandatory audit is effective in Trump's case.
Another consequence was a big fat tax bill for Nixon.
The committee reported that the president had used bogus deductions to reduce his taxable income, ultimately dodging $477,431 worth of taxes, according to the joint committee's recent summary of the episode. The IRS conducted a parallel review, and Nixon wound up paying.
The Treasury Department declined to comment for this article.
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Oxford es una villa ubicada en el condado de Chenango en el estado estadounidense de Nueva York. En el año 2000 tenía una población de 1,584 habitantes y una densidad poblacional de 344 personas por km².

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Oxford se encuentra ubicada en las coordenadas .

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Según la Oficina del Censo en 2000 los ingresos medios por hogar en la localidad eran de $37,692, y los ingresos medios por familia eran $43,125. Los hombres tenían unos ingresos medios de $29,408 frente a los $22,222 para las mujeres. La renta per cápita para la localidad era de $16,576. Alrededor del 14.3% de la población estaban por debajo del umbral de pobreza.

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Vaccine Epidemic: How Corporate Greed, Biased Science, and Coercive Government Threaten Our Human Rights, Our Health and Our Children
by Katherine Smith | 16 Feb, 2015 | Book and DVD Reviews, Children's Health and Development, Health Freedom Reports, Vaccination, Women's Health
Edited by Louse Kuo Habakus, MA and Mary Holland, JD
Copyright 2011 Center for Personal Rights
Reviewed by Katherine Smith
"I am here to tell you that I didn't know the harm vaccines could do. I think many parents are like me – they don't know either. I thought vaccines would keep in my children safe and healthy. That's what the doctor told me. I never imagined that a vaccine could do this to my daughter. My doctor never told me the risks. No one else did either. I was never shown anything describing potential side effects of vaccines. If you do choose to be vaccinated, you had better be very comfortable about the need for each vaccine because every time you vaccinate your child, there is a risk of severe injury and death. It is crucial that parents understand what is at stake and that the choice is theirs to make. I am telling you that people who pressure you to vaccinate don't own the consequences. Only you, as parents, do."
– Amy Pingel, whose 13-year old daughter Zeda, previously a healthy girl – "a straight A student and a cheerleader" – suffered seizures after Gardasil vaccination and lost her ability to walk, talk and control her bladder. Zeda now "lives her life in a hospital bed in our living room with daily round-the-clock care and nursing visits". She is "mostly unresponsive" and "breathes through her trach and eats with a tube."
Vaccination is a particularly hot topic in New Zealand at the moment [this book review was written several years ago – Ed] because on March 24, 2011 the Health Select Committee under the leadership of National Party MP Dr Paul Hutchison produced a report that recommends that the government make children's enrollment at school and early childhood centres dependent on parents producing proof of their children's vaccination status and – even more ominously – suggests that government direct the Ministry of Health to consider linking "existing parental benefits" to vaccination.
If the government accepts the recommendations in the report, it appears that parents will be forced to choose whether their child has no vaccinations – or all vaccinations on the schedule – in order to be able to supply the documentation necessary to enroll their child in a school or early childhood education centre. According to page 33 of the report, eligibility for the 20 Hours Free Early Childhood Education may also be restricted to children who have had all recommended vaccinations (or whose parents have signed a "declination form" (stating that they have decided against vaccination). This proposal is part of Dr Nikki Turner's "Six star plan" which the report recommends that the government adopt "where there is a clear evidence base for doing so within the resources available". (Dr Nikki Turner is the Director of the Immunisation Advisory Centre (IMAC). Until 2010, IMAC acknowledged funding from the NZ Ministry of Health and five pharmaceutical companies supplying vaccines to the NZ market. The relevant page was removed from the site after it was publicised in Uncensored magazine and also by Radio Waatea and Maori television. The site now has a Funding page that now acknowledges the Ministry of Health as IMAC's major funder and that the organisation also receives financial support from "private industry". See: http://www.immune.org.nz/?t=1021 ) [This link is no longer current due to changes to the IMAC website – Ed]
The report can be downloaded from the following link:
http://www.parliament.nz/NR/rdonlyres/BADCF722-D377-4451-8602-1E00938BFC74/188894/DBSCH_SCR_5060_Inquiryintohowtoimprovecompletionra.pdf
The report represents a significant attack on parents' rights to make decisions about their children's healthcare and is being vigorously opposed by people who are interested in human rights and vaccination choice, including the Immunisation Awareness Society (Since renamed WAVESNZ – Ed) (www.ias.org.nz) and a new group No Forced Vaccines (www.noforcedvaccines.org).
Important note: Since this book review was written the NZ government decided against instituting a coercive vaccination policy in NZ, recognising that it would be incompatible with the human right to make a free and informed choiice about medical treatment. See the press release "Immunisation decision 'Important victory for human rights'" at this link for details: http://www.noforcedvaccines.org/press-releases/
Dr Hutchison has been a strong proponent of vaccination for many years, and in fact in 2005 at the beginning of the meningococcal B (MeNZB) vaccination campaign went on record as stating "And I repeat: all preschools and schools make it compulsory for children to present a certificate that either confirms the child has been immunised or confirms the parent has made a firm conscientious objection."
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=3577255
Under Dr Hutchison's leadership, the Health Select Committee ignored evidence presented by a number of knowlegable people including t researcher and author Hilary Butler (http://www.beyondconformity.co.nz/) and Sue Claridge about how the current vaccination programme was often failing to prevent targeted diseases, contributing to the large number of New Zealand children and adults suffering from serious chonic health problems such as asthma, autism and diabetes (both type 1 and type 2) consequently making the procedure a poor investment of taxpayers' money – unless the purpose of that investment is to increase the profits to the companies that manufacture both vaccines and medications designed to manage the symptoms of chronic illness.
A number of people (mostly parents) whose children had been vaccine-injured also gave evidence to the Inquiry. Their contributions were generally ignored, although the report did state that "We were disturbed about the unsatisfactory information flow between agencies and families in this process [of investigating injuries and deaths following vaccination]." (The actual injuries and the deaths do not seem to worry the author(s) of the report.) The death of 18 year old Jasmine Renata, who developed symptoms consistent with neurological disease following her Gardasil injections and died in her sleep in 2009 had still not been investigated by the Coroner's office as of early 2011. Her devastated parents made a number of submissions to the Inquiry.
As everyone in New Zealand knows, Gardasil is still being promoted by the NZ Ministry of Health despite Jasmine's death and reports of serious chronic illness in other recipients.
The Report of the Health Select Committee on its Inquiry into how to improve [increase] immunisation [vaccination] completion rates states that uptake of the HPV vaccine Gardasil has been lower in schools situated in wealthier areas. (The Ministry of Health has managed to get high compliance in schools in low socio-economic areas which typically have a large proportion of Maori and Polynesian students by sending in Maori/Polynesian nurses who tell the girls that getting vaccinated with Gardasil is the right thing to do. Having been thus assured by a kindly authority figure from their own ethnic group about the desirability of the vaccine, most girls aged 16 and over – who can legally given consent without parental permission – consent to Gardasil vaccination.)
In the case of Gardasil, it appears that the high compliance rates that are achievable in economically marginalised groups such as Maori and Polynesian girls (who typically comes from families who have less education than the Pakeha majority) cannot be matched in wealthier communities where parents are generally better educated, have internet access and are able to research the vaccine for themselves.
This is consistent with trends worldwide which have shown that parents who are better educated are increasingly likely to make a choice not to vaccinate. (See: http://www.vaccineriskawareness.com/More-Educated-Mothers-Are-Less-Likely-To-Vaccinate )
Unfortunately, the natural desire of parents to protect their children from harm (by refusing vaccines that they believe pose unacceptable risks to health) has sparked an international backlash led by Big Pharma – which doesn't want parents' legitimate fears about vaccine safety to interfere with its multibillion dollar business.
Manipulation of the political process (such as we have just seen in NZ when a vociferous supporter of vaccination manipulates his way into the the chairmanship of the Health Select Committee and holds an Inquiry into vaccination rates that produces a report that recommends a new coercive vaccination policy) can potentially be used as a tool to maintain vaccine sales. In the USA, vaccines such as Gardasil can be mandated for school attendance. Drug companies contribute generously to both the Democratic and Republican parties, thus ensuring that whichever is in government, it will be business as usual for the vaccine industry.
A war is also being fought for the hearts and minds of the public. Vocal vaccination proponent and co-inventor of a rotavirus vaccine, Dr Paul Offit wrote a book called Autism's New False Prophets in an attempt to restore public confidence in vaccination following disclosures that the MMR vaccine and paediatric vaccines containing extremely high levels of mercury could be contributing to the autism epidemic.
In 2011 he published a new book Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All designed to scapegoat parents who decide against vaccination as a danger to the rest of the community – even though if vaccines worked as advertised, individuals who are vaccinated should be protected and therefore at no risk of developing an infectious disease.
Vaccine Epidemic may be seen as one of the initiatives in the struggle to maintain human rights in an age where corporate interests are increasingly dominating public policy.**
Have no doubt about it: human rights are under threat. In the USA, most paediatric vaccines have been mandated for school entry for years. This means that unless parents can obtain an exemption their children cannot attend school. In most (but not all) states of the USA, it is possible to obtain exemptions from vaccination on medical, religious or philosophical grounds. The discrimination against unvaccinated children in the USA has led to increased numbers of parents choosing to educate their children at home. Unfortunately, even after compulsory education ends, institutions of "higher learning" continue the ignoble practice of discriminating against unvaccinated students. In some cases, refusal to admit an otherwise qualified students unless s/he submits to vaccination can have tragic consequences, such as the case of a virtuoso violinist who had been home-educated – and not vaccinated. The college into which she had been accepted refused to waive its vaccination requirements, so she agreed to having an MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) shot. Despite being healthy before the vaccine, after the MMR jab she developed arthritis so severe that she could no longer play her instrument and her general health deteriorated so badly that she had to go on disability.
Incidentally, chronic arthritis following MMR vaccination is on the US National Vaccine Injury Act list of compensable events, and the datasheet for MSD's MMR-II vaccine on Medsafe's website lists chronic arthritis as a possible adverse effect following MMR vaccination. The NZ Ministry of Health does not mention the possibility of arthritis as a consequence of MMR vaccination in its booklet for parents "Childhood Immunisation". Moreover, the Ministry of Health-produced Immunisation Handbook [2006] misinforms health professionals by stating that the MMR vaccine "does not cause chronic arthritis". The risk of arthritis following MMR vaccination is higher for adolescent girls and women than it is for younger children and men.
Vaccine Epidemic is an anthology and includes contributions from people with different perspectives. One message does come through consistently, however: the tragic results for individuals and their families when people are deceived, coerced, or downright forced into "accepting" vaccination as part of a policy purportedly designed to protect "public health" at the expense of the rights of the individual.
Captain Richard Rovet, USAF (Ret) contributes the story of how US services personnel were used as unwitting human guinea pigs for vaccines containing illegal squalene-based adjuvants – even though these adjuvants were known to induce autoimmune disease in animals. When many vaccine recipients predictably developed serious chronic illnesses as a result of their being used in these immoral experiments, they were accused of being "malingers, liars, whiners and malcontents". Those who spoke out about these human rights abuses were threatened with dishonourable discharge. US military personnel are vulnerable to this sort of abuse because the US military can legally waive informed consent for its members and military personnel cannot sue the government.
"I have personally borne witness to the devastating effects of the anthrax vaccine. I will forever have etched upon my memory the vision of a young enlisted woman screaming and crying as she was forcibly held down while the needle delivering anthrax vaccine was pushed into her body. I will never forget the sad day when my dead friend, technical Sergeant Clarence Glover, died after anthrax vaccination. My memory holds the stories of those who skin literally burned off due to anthrax vaccine-induced Stevens-Johnston syndrome and of the infants under my care who were born with severe birth defects after their pregnant mothers were vaccinated with the anthrax vaccine."
The news in Vaccine Epidemic is not all bleak, however. Chapter 14 "A Mother-Son Story" is written by Sonja Hintz, RN and Alexander Hintz who respectively relate their different perspectives of Alexander's decline into – and recovery from – vaccine-induced autism.
Vaccine Epidemic also discusses the fallacies of the theory of "herd immunity" (now being re-branded as "community protection" – at least in NZ) that provides the rationale for increasingly coercive vaccination policies. According to the chapter contributed to the book by Sheri Tenpenny (DO) in the USA, most children who contract so called "vaccine preventable" diseases are now fully vaccinated. Nevertheless, the vaccine companies promote rampant germophobia as a sales pitch in an effort to convince the public that they are vaccine deficient. Fewer people are falling for this nonsense. The internet has allowed many people to educate themselves about basic preventative health care choices (good nutrition, healthy lifestyles etc) that reduce the risk of developing infections – or suffering serious complications if they or their children do get sick. That's the good news. The bad news is that the vaccine companies don't like it when the public gets uppity and doesn't want to take their medicine.
They don't like it when books like Vaccine Epidemic take a long hard look at the science of vaccine safety and reveal to the public that there has never been a proper long term study comparing the health of vaccinated people with those who are not vaccinated. (In NZ, applications to conduct such studies have been rejected by ethics committees on the grounds that they are unethical because the unvaccinated would be denied the purported benefits of vaccination.)
Vaccine Epidemic, while being firmly on the side of human rights is generally even handed on the subject of vaccination. Its final chapter "What Should Parents Do?" includes information about books from on all sides of the vaccination issue from the unabashedly pro-vaccine camp, to books by doctors who advocate limited vaccination to doctors who oppose all vaccinations. These references could be very useful for parents who are in the process of making decisions about vaccination for their children.
I'll give the final word in this review to James Turner, JD:
"In a moral society, there can be no mandated vaccinations. In a moral society citizens must be allowed to choose which vaccines they and their children receive and when. Without vaccination choice, society places both public and individual health at risk. Vaccination choice is a fundamental human right."
Editor's note: If you enjoyed this review, you may likewise find the articles on vaccination that are published in The NZ Journal of Natural Medicine to be interesting…The home page for the Journal's website is www.naturalmedicine.net.nz


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Plans for 110 homes on former Siemens site in Wollaton approved
Concerns were raised about the road which will be used to access the site
Kit SandemanLocal Democracy Reporter
Plans for 110 new houses in Wollaton have been approved despite concerns being raised about access.
Outline planning permission was granted today (June 20) and more detailed designs are expected to come before Nottingham City Council's planning committee in the coming months.
No councillor voted against the plans, however there was one abstention from Councillor Linda Woodings, who represents the Basford ward for Labour.
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Access to the new site will be via Woodyard Lane. Planning officers believe it is wide enough for two cars to pass each other, but there will be some places where one car is required to wait, as part of traffic calming measures.
Councillor Woodings said: "I do live very close to the bottom of Woodyard Lane, and when I saw these plans, to me it does look like an odd access route.
New bid to build multi-million pound flats on former pub site off Alfreton Road
"You have a lot of roads coming together in what even now feels like quite a dangerous junction. You have to have the neck movements of an owl to check all the directions."
Council officer James Ashton, from the council's highways department, said a detailed assessment had been carried out on the junction where the new housing scheme will be accessed from.
Woodyard Lane, Wollaton, was formerly used by Siemens and could become 110 homes (Image: Google Maps)
It found there had been no accidents which involved an injury in the last five years.
Mr Ashton said: "We don't think there will be a safety issue, even with the additional build up of homes."
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The site currently consists of three empty "employment buildings" and used to be occupied by engineering firm Siemens for offices and manufacturing. These will be demolished to make way for the new houses.
The company relocated to a new site in the city in December 2017.
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The planning application was made by Michael Davies on behalf of the Nottinghamshire County Council Pension Fund, and as a condition of permission being granted a "financial contribution towards education" and £3,350 towards the improvement of the footpath link between the site and Lambourne Drive will be paid.
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Fashion week is over and has left us inspired, to try new fashions and dare to take on new trends. Now, just as quickly as fashions turn, so do new technologies. In fact… technology is the latest fashion, and when we think of "fashion", how can we not think of women?
Why are there still such enormous gaps for something that would seemingly be something both women and men could do equally as historically women were at one point equal in the pursuit of computing (1980's)?
Urban Dictionary defines "IT Guy" as "a person who specializes in the field of computer technology or internet technology. Could also be someone that appears geeky, may appear as a computer specialist and may even sound geeky. Also someone who carries too many keys." Our traditional view of an "IT guy" might look something like Jurassic Park – "Live" Feed photo above. There are many social stereo types this stereotypes demeanor, actions, attitude, and capabilities. Over the past 4 decades as we depend more and more on computing in our daily lives, this perception really hasn't changed much.
92% of nurses are female (bureau of labor statistics). Why is that? Men are given the same opportunity as women. In the movie "Meet the Parents" Ben Stiller plays "Gaylord Focker" and is ridiculed by his future father-in-law about his profession as a male nurse. There are many social stigmas around that and teachers. So just how do we get to the bottom of what "that" is?
Media and Popular Culture: Computing as masculine and "geeky" * Summing It Up: Girls' perceptions, interests, confidence, and career decisions (who would equate a prestigious female role model with the above imagery?).
There has been a drastic improvement in our culture in the last few years, taking a very serious look at how we are socialized based on the movies and stories we hear growing up. Many industries leaders like Hollywood, are taking a very close look at how women are allowed at the table and given opportunity, and as a result we see much more diversity. Schools are beginning to address the huge gap, as they look at ways to address this issue.
Collegeboard.org reports the number of female students that are taking AP Computer Science tests is rapidly increasing! Just in 2017 to 2018 by 70%!!
While the media does it's part to portray females in non-traditional roles. Many other organizations both traditional educators and the new breed of coding schools, have taken the initiative to focus on bringing girls to technology.
One such is Columbus, OH based getWITit.org in their first of it's kind conference for girls in tech ages 7th – 10th grade.
Until the opportunity is completely equal, there is be a need to create a community of support that fosters girls to both want to choose technical careers, and feel supported.
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Q: Code behind WPF and F# Is it possible to make an application in F# that uses WPF with a classic code behind? I know it works perfect with MVVM and no code behind, but I need to implement an interface on a UserControl. Is that possible with F#?
To help a bit, here is the code I want to translate from C# to F#
public class Test : UserControl, IContent {

    public void InitializeComponents() {
        // Do the initialization magic
    }

    public Test() {
    }

    public void OnFragmentNavigation(FragmentNavigationEventArgs e) {
        this.DataContext = new { description = "Hallo Welt :)" };
    }

    public void OnNavigatedFrom(NavigationEventArgs e) {
    }

    public void OnNavigatedTo(NavigationEventArgs e){
    }

    public void OnNavigatingFrom(NavigatingCancelEventArgs e) {
    }
}

And this is the markup
<UserControl xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/netfx/2007/xaml/presentation"
             xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
             x:Class="Test">
    <TextBlock Text="{Binding description}"></TextBlock>
</UserControl>

A: It really depends on what you mean by "classic code behind". As mentioned by Petr, F# does not have partial classes (and there is also no editor support), so you won't get the same experience (when you are accessing elements or adding events). But you can certainly build a WPF application that uses the same programming model.
One way to get something that is very close to standard code behind is to define a class, associated with each xaml file, that looks something like this:
type SomeComponent() =
  let uri = System.Uri("/AppName;component/SomeComponent.xaml", UriKind.Relative)
  let ctl = Application.LoadComponent(uri) :?> UserControl

  let (?) (this : Control) (prop : string) : 'T =
    this.FindName(prop) :?> 'T

  let okBtn : Button  = ctl?OkButton
  do okBtn.Click.Add(fun _ -> (* .. whatever *) )

This loads the XAML content and then uses the dynamic lookup operator to find all the UI elements (which you'd get for free in C#). A nicer F# solution is to use FsXaml, which has a XAML type provider (but sadly, not much documentation).

A: I found a solution, I just make it short, here is the code:
namespace Testns

open System.Windows.Controls
open FirstFloor.ModernUI.Windows
open Microsoft.FSharp.Core
open System

type TestUserControl() =
    inherit UserControl()

    interface IContent with
        member x.OnFragmentNavigation(e: Navigation.FragmentNavigationEventArgs): unit =
            let vm = ViewModel("Hallo Welt :)")
            base.DataContext <- vm
            ()

        member x.OnNavigatedFrom(e: Navigation.NavigationEventArgs): unit = ()

        member x.OnNavigatedTo(e: Navigation.NavigationEventArgs): unit = ()

        member x.OnNavigatingFrom(e: Navigation.NavigatingCancelEventArgs): unit = ()

And the markup
<local:TestUserControl xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/netfx/2007/xaml/presentation"
             xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
             xmlns:local="clr-namespace:Testns;assembly=App">
    <TextBlock Text="{Binding description}"></TextBlock>
</local:TestUserControl>

This is not the answer for the actual question, it just works for my use case. So feel free to answer it :)

A: Probably no. As far as I know F# doesn't support partial classes.
But you can use F# XAML type provider as described here: http://www.mindscapehq.com/blog/index.php/2012/04/29/using-wpf-elements-from-f/


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La codependencia es un trastorno psicológico en la cual alguien manifiesta una excesiva, y a menudo inapropiada, preocupación por los problemas de otra persona o de un colectivo.

Características de la codependencia
El codependiente asume un rol arquetípico mesiánico que invade todas las áreas de su vida y suele olvidarse de sí mismo y sus necesidades gradualmente para centrarse en los problemas del otro (su pareja, un familiar, un amigo, una causa social, etc.). Por ello, es muy común que se relacione con gente "problemática", justamente para poder rescatarla y crear de este modo un lazo que los una. Así es como el codependiente, al preocuparse por el otro, olvida sus propias necesidades y cuando la otra persona no responde como el codependiente espera, éste se frustra y se deprime. Con su constante ayuda, el codependiente busca generar, en el otro, la necesidad de su presencia, y al sentirse necesitado cree que de este modo nunca lo van a abandonar. Esta condición es grave ya que al no sentirse correspondido puede hacerse daño a sí mismo e incluso a la otra persona.

Es muy común que en una relación el codependiente no pueda o le sea muy difícil poner límites y sencillamente todo lo perdone, a pesar de que la otra persona llegue a herirlo de manera deliberada. Esto es simplemente porque el codependiente confunde la "obsesión" y "adicción" que siente por el otro con un inmenso amor que todo lo puede. Por ende, el codependiente es incapaz de alejarse por sí mismo de una relación enfermiza, por más insana que ésta sea; y es muy común que llegue a pensar que más allá de esa persona se acaba el mundo, hasta que reconoce su condición psicológica y el codependiente decide hacer algo para cambiar la manera en que vive y así, terminar con la codependencia o no volver a generar su codependencia en otras personas o en futuras relaciones sociales.

En muchos casos la codependencia puede llevar a la persona a tener que soportar situaciones indeseables como maltratos (físicos o psicológicos), acoso, humillaciones o simplemente tener que convivir con personas tóxicas y abusivas (y esto puede llegar al extremo de tratarse aun de familiares consanguíneos).

Descripción
La codependencia consiste en estar total o casi totalmente centrados en una persona, un lugar o en algo fuera de nosotros mismos. La codependencia se caracteriza por una negación inconsciente de nuestras emociones. La negación es una respuesta humana natural a situaciones a las que no podemos hacer frente o que no podemos permitirnos sentir. Generalmente se origina en la niñez (pero puede aparecer a cualquier edad), dentro de un ambiente familiar (o grupal) no sano. Es nuestra forma de protegernos. Es un proceso inconsciente necesario para la supervivencia en determinadas circunstancias.

Un codependiente debe superar esta enfermedad psicológica para poder ser libre de elegir con quien relacionarse y, más aún, poner límites.

Tales conductas, (las de concentrarse en una persona o lugar fuera de nosotros) que bien pueden aminorar el conflicto y alivianar las tensiones dentro de la familia (o grupo) en el corto plazo, son contraproducentes a largo plazo, dado que, en este caso, el codependiente está realmente apoyando ("facilitando") el comportamiento adictivo de la persona de la cual es codependiente (p. ej. cónyuge alcohólico).

La codependencia también puede ser un conjunto de conductas de inadaptación, compulsión, aprendidas por los miembros de una familia (o grupo) a fin de sobrevivir en un ambiente que experimenta una gran tensión y pena emocional causada, por ejemplo, por una pérdida sensible, violencia intrafamiliar, por el alcoholismo, otra adicción u otra forma de neurosis de un miembro de la familia, abuso sexual o una enfermedad crónica de un familiar, o fuerzas externas a la familia, como la pobreza. También existen cuadros de codependencia en situaciones no extremas.

Algunos síntomas de la codependencia son: conducta controladora, desconfianza, perfeccionismo, evitar hablar de los sentimientos, problemas de intimidad, comportamiento protector, hipervigilancia o malestar físico debido a estrés. A menudo la codependencia va acompañada por depresión, ya que el codependiente sucumbe ante sentimientos de frustración o tristeza extrema por su incapacidad de realizar cambios en la vida de la otra persona (o personas) y puede llegar también a producir ataques de pánico en quienes lo padecen. También las personas codependientes tienden a formar vínculos muy apegados y confiar en personas tóxicas restándole autonomía y personalidad.

Los individuos que sufren codependencia pueden buscar asistencia a través de varias terapias verbales, sin embargo pueden abandonarla cuando en el proceso descubren que los puede llevar a "dejar" al otro. puede recurrirse a terapia farmacológica para la depresión asociada. Además existen grupos para codependencia; algunos de estos son Codependientes anónimos (CoDA) , Al-Anon/Alateen' y 'Nar-Anon, los cuales están ambos basados en el modelo de 12 pasos creado por Alcohólicos Anónimos y Celebrate Recovery, un grupo cristiano basado en la Biblia. Se han escrito muchas guías de autoayuda sobre el tema de la codependencia.

Se han escrito muchos libros sobre el tema de la Codependencia, incluyendo las obras de Melody Beattie, quien se ha vuelto uno de los portavoces de la industria de autoayuda para la codependencia. También es autora de Codependent No More entre otros muchos volúmenes. Sin embargo, cabe advertir que no todos los profesionales de la salud mental son de la misma opinión acerca de la co-dependencia o sus métodos normales de tratamiento. Katz & Liu, en The Codependency Conspiracy: How to Break the Recovery Habit and Take Charge of Your Life, establecen que la co-dependencia está sobre-diagnosticada, y que mucha gente que podría ser auxiliada con tratamientos de más corto plazo, en cambio se vuelven dependientes de programas de auto-ayuda a largo plazo.

Véase también
 Adicción

Bibliografía en español
 De La Codependencia a La Libertad: Cara a Cara Con El Miedo.. 2004. Krishnananda (Thomas Trobe, M.D.). ISBN 84-86797-90-X
 De La Confianza Ficticia a La Confianza Real: Aprender De Las Decepciones y Las Traiciones.. 2007. Krishnanada (Thomas Trobe, M.D.) y Amada (Gitte Demant Trobe). ISBN 978-84-869797-06-5
 Codependencia. La dependencia controladora. La dependencia sumisa. 2000. May, Dorothy. ISBN 84-330-1518-4
 La Adicción Al Amor. Mellody, Pia. 1997. ISBN 978-84-7720-556-2
 La Codependencia: Qué es, De dónde procede, Cómo sabotea nuestras vidas. Mellody, Pia; Millar, Andrea Wells; Millar, J. Keith. 1995. ISBN 978-84-493-1594-7
 Quiero ser libre: de la codependencia a la coparticipación creativa. AA.VV. 2007. ISBN 978-970-24-1120-8
 Libérate de la codependencia. 2001. Beattie, Melody. Ed. Sirio. ISBN 84-7808-233-6

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 Codependientes Anónimos
 Codependientes Anónimos de Colombia

Adicciones
Relaciones interpersonales
Desarrollo personal


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